, 1887-05-17
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Lima, ", IS about to organize an oil
exchange.
There is an unusual freshet in the lower
Rio Grande.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, called on
Queen Kapiolani yesterday.
The Chinese quarter of Fresno. Cal.
has been burned. Loss, $4,000.
The remains of the late Vicar General
Quinn have arrived in New York.
The lower Rio Grande valley has been
visited by plentiful rains during the last
week.
Agitation against Monday pay day has
been commenced by the workingmen of
st. Louis.
Over 5000 citizens of Denver met to
protest against the coercion bill, on Satur-
day night.
Napoleon B. Crump, of Arkansas, has
been appointed special agent of the gem
eral land office.
The funeral OF the late Justice Woods
will take place this afternoon at Newark,
o., where he was born.
Governor Ross, of New Mexico, has
signed the death warrants OF two murder
ers, to be hanged on Friday next.
The visible supply of cereals is report
ed as follows: Wheat, A, 45S, 900 BUSH
els; corn. l 1896, 900; oats, 1906, 900.
The Louisville cup, two and one quarter
miles, was won yesterday by Montana
Regent by three quarters of a length.
Big Chief, a noted Pawnee Indian who
has been exhibited throughout the East,
has Just died of apoplexy at Chicago.
The oil company case at Buffalo N. Y,
has resulted in the conviction OF two o.
the accused, who have moved for a new
trial.
The Canada Southern, Canadian Pacific
and Wabash companies have made an ar
rangement for the use of each other's
lines.
Kersten Peters wholesale paper house
at Denver. was destroyed by fire yester-
day morning. Loss, $35, 900; fully in
sured.
The enforcement of the Sunday law in
New York on the 18th drove thousands
of foreigners to spend the day beyond the
Hudson.
A mob at Willis, Tex, attacked the
Jail on Sunday and shot to death two
negroes who were awaiting trial on a
charge of murder.
John B. Fussett and wife, both aged
60 years, were burned to death in theil
sawmill at Moretown, near Waterbury,
VT, on Saturday last.
The American ship Charles Fl. Mar
shall, which left London on Dec. 5 fol-
Philadelphia, has been given up for lost,
with her crew of twenty-three men.
A boy named James Mannix was blown
to pieces by an accidental discharge Of
giant powder in the Midland tunnel at
Leadville, Col, on Saturday last.
The Northern Pacific company has
given notice to shippers of cattle that the
quarantine proclaimed by Montana does
not affect shipments to the Pacific coast.
Gen. Sheridan has received a report
from the inspector general of the division
of the Atlantic, recommending the keep
ing Of Geronimo and his comrades at
Marion, Fla.
A large mass meeting was held at
Lowell, Mass, last evening, at which
resolutions were adopted vigorously pro-
testing against the passage of the coercion
bill by the British parliament.
The secretary of the New Zealand post
Office department has asked Postmaster
General Villas to expedite the transconti-
mental mails from London via San Fran
cisco, which are frequently delayed several
days.
J. B. Hotchkiss, a prominent and
wealthy business man of Nashville, Tenn. p,
was shot in a difficulty at the house of his
mistress on Saturday night, and the cir
cumstances of his ~wounding have created
scandal on account of his engagement to a
society belle of that city.